![]() It was therefore with a great deal of pleasure that I read Susanne Alleyn’s recently republished spin on the classic, A Far Better Rest, which imagines the story through Sydney Carton’s eyes and turns him into a participant in revolutionary events. Who can deny that the book’s opening is one of the best in English literature and its last line ain’t bad either, but, as a French historian attempting to teach it, I have cursed the clichés Dickens so brilliantly entrenched about the Old Regime and French Revolution. But aside from a stage production in Greece this summer, no new version of A Tale of Two Cities is in the works. The BBC has already aired its new Great Expectations and adaptation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This year marks the bicentenial of Charles Dickens’s birth and the event is being celebrated around the globe. ![]()
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